ADVANCEMENT STUDY GUIDE MARCH 2011 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
What is a condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminent danger and of requiring immediate
assistance? [-Answer -]Distress[
]What is a condition concerning the security of a ship, aircraft or other vehicle, or of some person on
board or within sight, but which does not require immediate assistance? [-Answer -]Urgency[
]What safety is that condition which necessitates the transmission of a message concerning the safety of
navigation or providing important meteorological warnings? [-Answer -]Safety[
]What traffic shall have absolute priority over all other transmissions? [-Answer -]Distress[
]What traffic shall have priority over all othe communications except distress? [-Answer -]Urgency[
]In cases of distress, urgency or safety transmissions by radiotelephony they shall be made slowly and
distinctly, each word being clearly pronounced to facilitate what? [-Answer -]Transcription[
]What is the service between aeronautical stations (normally a land station but may be placed onboard a
ship or an earth satellite) and aircraft stations or between aircraft stations in which survival craft stations
may also participate? [-Answer -]Aeronautical Mobile Service[
]What is the service between coast stations and ship stations, or between ship stations, in which survival
craft stations may also participate? [-Answer -]Maritime Mobile Service[
]The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System is administered by who? [-Answer -]International
Maritime Organization (IMO)[
]In a voice distress signal the word MAYDAY is pronounced as which French expression? [-Answer
-]"m'aider"[
]The voice alarm signal consists of two substantially sinusoidal audio frenquency tones transmitted
alternatively. One tone has a frequency of 2200 Hz and the other 1300 Hz. The duration of each tone is
how long? [-Answer -]250 milliseconds[
,]The purpose of what signal is to alert the operators on watch or to activate 2182 kHz watchkeeping
recievers to warn operators that distress call or message is to follow? [-Answer -]Alarm signal[
]The frequency 2182 kHz (and it's supplementary frequencies 4125 and 6215 kHz) is the International
Distress frequency for what? [-Answer -]Voice[
]What frequency is the International Distress, Safety and Calling frequency for the maritime mobile VHF
radiotelephone service? [-Answer -]156.8 MHz[
]Immediately before a crash landing or a forced landing (on land or sea) of an aircraft, as well as before
total abandonment of a ship or an aircraft, the radio equipment should be set for what type of
emmission? [-Answer -]Continuous[
]When a station in distress has delegated control of distress working to another station the person in
charge of the station in distress should, when he considers silence no longer justified, immediately
inform the what? [-Answer -]Controlling station[
]All other stations which hear the Urgency signal are to continue to listen for at least how long? [-Answer
-]Three minutes[
]What indicates that the station is about to transmit a message containing an important navigational or
meteorological warning? [-Answer -]Safety signal[
]An aircraft seeing but not understanding ground signals by day will fly a complete right circle and by
night will make red flashes with what? [-Answer -]Signal lamp[
]When making ground signals you shoudl make them not less than how long in length? [-Answer -]8 feet[
]In the absence of any response to this initial transmission the aircraft, ship or survival craft will
preferably inititate a distress call on the Internationall Aeronautical Emergency Frequency 121.5 MHz or
on the Distress and Emergency Frequency of what? [-Answer -]243.0 MHz[
,]The International Distress and Calling frequency for voice on what frequency is used by mobile stations,
survival craft and emergency postition-indicating radiobeacons using frequencies in the authorized
bands between 1605 and 4000 kHz when requesting assistance from the maritime services? [-Answer
-]2182 kHz[
]Which frequencies are used to supplement the carrier frequency 2182 kHz for Distress and Safety
purposes and for call and reply? [-Answer -]4125 kHz and 6215 kHz[
]What frequency is used for the International Aeronautical Emergency Frequency for aircraft and those
aeronautical stations primarily concerned with the safety and regularity of flight along national or
international civil air routes and having equipment in the 118-136 MHz band? [-Answer -]121.5 MHz[
]What frequency is for international use by the Maritime Mobile VHF Radiotelephone Service as a
distress, safety and calling frequency? [-Answer -]156.8 MHz[
]What frequency is agreed internationally for use by equipment provided for use in Survival Craft
Stations, which is capable of operatiing on bands between 235 and 328.6 MHz? [-Answer -]243 MHz[
]Which frequencies are common to both the Aeronautical Mobile (Route) Service (Aem(R)) and the
Aeronautical Mobile (Off-Route) (Aem(OR)) Service and are available to all mobile units at the scene of a
search and rescue operation, and by fixed stations for communicating with aircraft proceeding to or from
a search and rescue scene? [-Answer -]3023 kHz and 5680 kHz[
]Which frequency is for world-wide use when communicating with enroute aircraft participating in SAR
operaitons? [-Answer -]123.1 MHz[
]Call signs for assigned SAR craft will consist of which prefix followed by the normal SAR call sign? [-
Answer -]"RESCUE"[
]What is the ability to rapidly collect, process, and disseminate information while denying these
capabilities to adversaries? [-Answer -]Information Superiority[
, ]What are the measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring
availability integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation? [-Answer -]Information
Assurance[
]What consists of actions and operations to defend computer systems and networks from unauthorized
activities that degrad mission performance and adversely impact survivability? [-Answer -]Computer
Network Defense[
]What focuses on affecting human decision processes to achieve friendly objectives? [-Answer
-]Information Operations[
]What enables operations and intelligence collection to gather data from target or adversary automated
information systems or networks? [-Answer -]Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)[
]What provides globally interconnected capabilities, processes and personnel for collecting, processing,
storing, disseminating and managing information for all DoD war-fighters, policy makers, and support
personnel? [-Answer -]Global Information Grid (GIG)[
]What is an organizational, procedural and technological construct for ensuring information superiority
and enabling speed of command for the war-fighter? [-Answer -]NETOPS[
]What intergrates the three primary functions of network management, information dissmination
managment (IDM) and IA? [-Answer -]NETOPS[
]What provides visibility of extent and intensity of the activity, traffic, load and throughput potential, as
well as detction of significant degradation of service? [-Answer -]Network Management[
]What does network management enable based on priority, system status and capacity? [-Answer
-]Dynamic Rerouting[
]What intergrates an organized, manned, equipped and trained workforce to guard, secure and secure
information and information systems by providing the security services/attributes of availability,
authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation? [-Answer -]Information Assurance[
What is a condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminent danger and of requiring immediate
assistance? [-Answer -]Distress[
]What is a condition concerning the security of a ship, aircraft or other vehicle, or of some person on
board or within sight, but which does not require immediate assistance? [-Answer -]Urgency[
]What safety is that condition which necessitates the transmission of a message concerning the safety of
navigation or providing important meteorological warnings? [-Answer -]Safety[
]What traffic shall have absolute priority over all other transmissions? [-Answer -]Distress[
]What traffic shall have priority over all othe communications except distress? [-Answer -]Urgency[
]In cases of distress, urgency or safety transmissions by radiotelephony they shall be made slowly and
distinctly, each word being clearly pronounced to facilitate what? [-Answer -]Transcription[
]What is the service between aeronautical stations (normally a land station but may be placed onboard a
ship or an earth satellite) and aircraft stations or between aircraft stations in which survival craft stations
may also participate? [-Answer -]Aeronautical Mobile Service[
]What is the service between coast stations and ship stations, or between ship stations, in which survival
craft stations may also participate? [-Answer -]Maritime Mobile Service[
]The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System is administered by who? [-Answer -]International
Maritime Organization (IMO)[
]In a voice distress signal the word MAYDAY is pronounced as which French expression? [-Answer
-]"m'aider"[
]The voice alarm signal consists of two substantially sinusoidal audio frenquency tones transmitted
alternatively. One tone has a frequency of 2200 Hz and the other 1300 Hz. The duration of each tone is
how long? [-Answer -]250 milliseconds[
,]The purpose of what signal is to alert the operators on watch or to activate 2182 kHz watchkeeping
recievers to warn operators that distress call or message is to follow? [-Answer -]Alarm signal[
]The frequency 2182 kHz (and it's supplementary frequencies 4125 and 6215 kHz) is the International
Distress frequency for what? [-Answer -]Voice[
]What frequency is the International Distress, Safety and Calling frequency for the maritime mobile VHF
radiotelephone service? [-Answer -]156.8 MHz[
]Immediately before a crash landing or a forced landing (on land or sea) of an aircraft, as well as before
total abandonment of a ship or an aircraft, the radio equipment should be set for what type of
emmission? [-Answer -]Continuous[
]When a station in distress has delegated control of distress working to another station the person in
charge of the station in distress should, when he considers silence no longer justified, immediately
inform the what? [-Answer -]Controlling station[
]All other stations which hear the Urgency signal are to continue to listen for at least how long? [-Answer
-]Three minutes[
]What indicates that the station is about to transmit a message containing an important navigational or
meteorological warning? [-Answer -]Safety signal[
]An aircraft seeing but not understanding ground signals by day will fly a complete right circle and by
night will make red flashes with what? [-Answer -]Signal lamp[
]When making ground signals you shoudl make them not less than how long in length? [-Answer -]8 feet[
]In the absence of any response to this initial transmission the aircraft, ship or survival craft will
preferably inititate a distress call on the Internationall Aeronautical Emergency Frequency 121.5 MHz or
on the Distress and Emergency Frequency of what? [-Answer -]243.0 MHz[
,]The International Distress and Calling frequency for voice on what frequency is used by mobile stations,
survival craft and emergency postition-indicating radiobeacons using frequencies in the authorized
bands between 1605 and 4000 kHz when requesting assistance from the maritime services? [-Answer
-]2182 kHz[
]Which frequencies are used to supplement the carrier frequency 2182 kHz for Distress and Safety
purposes and for call and reply? [-Answer -]4125 kHz and 6215 kHz[
]What frequency is used for the International Aeronautical Emergency Frequency for aircraft and those
aeronautical stations primarily concerned with the safety and regularity of flight along national or
international civil air routes and having equipment in the 118-136 MHz band? [-Answer -]121.5 MHz[
]What frequency is for international use by the Maritime Mobile VHF Radiotelephone Service as a
distress, safety and calling frequency? [-Answer -]156.8 MHz[
]What frequency is agreed internationally for use by equipment provided for use in Survival Craft
Stations, which is capable of operatiing on bands between 235 and 328.6 MHz? [-Answer -]243 MHz[
]Which frequencies are common to both the Aeronautical Mobile (Route) Service (Aem(R)) and the
Aeronautical Mobile (Off-Route) (Aem(OR)) Service and are available to all mobile units at the scene of a
search and rescue operation, and by fixed stations for communicating with aircraft proceeding to or from
a search and rescue scene? [-Answer -]3023 kHz and 5680 kHz[
]Which frequency is for world-wide use when communicating with enroute aircraft participating in SAR
operaitons? [-Answer -]123.1 MHz[
]Call signs for assigned SAR craft will consist of which prefix followed by the normal SAR call sign? [-
Answer -]"RESCUE"[
]What is the ability to rapidly collect, process, and disseminate information while denying these
capabilities to adversaries? [-Answer -]Information Superiority[
, ]What are the measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring
availability integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation? [-Answer -]Information
Assurance[
]What consists of actions and operations to defend computer systems and networks from unauthorized
activities that degrad mission performance and adversely impact survivability? [-Answer -]Computer
Network Defense[
]What focuses on affecting human decision processes to achieve friendly objectives? [-Answer
-]Information Operations[
]What enables operations and intelligence collection to gather data from target or adversary automated
information systems or networks? [-Answer -]Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)[
]What provides globally interconnected capabilities, processes and personnel for collecting, processing,
storing, disseminating and managing information for all DoD war-fighters, policy makers, and support
personnel? [-Answer -]Global Information Grid (GIG)[
]What is an organizational, procedural and technological construct for ensuring information superiority
and enabling speed of command for the war-fighter? [-Answer -]NETOPS[
]What intergrates the three primary functions of network management, information dissmination
managment (IDM) and IA? [-Answer -]NETOPS[
]What provides visibility of extent and intensity of the activity, traffic, load and throughput potential, as
well as detction of significant degradation of service? [-Answer -]Network Management[
]What does network management enable based on priority, system status and capacity? [-Answer
-]Dynamic Rerouting[
]What intergrates an organized, manned, equipped and trained workforce to guard, secure and secure
information and information systems by providing the security services/attributes of availability,
authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation? [-Answer -]Information Assurance[
